Frasi di Dwight David Eisenhower
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, all'anagrafe Dwight David Eisenhower , è stato un generale e politico statunitense, noto anche con il nomignolo di Ike.

Ufficiale preparato e capace, dopo una brillante carriera nello stato maggiore dell'Esercito degli Stati Uniti venne inviato nel 1942 in Gran Bretagna a capo delle truppe statunitensi destinate a partecipare alla seconda guerra mondiale.

Comandante in capo delle forze Alleate prima nel teatro del Mediterraneo nel 1942-1943 e quindi dal 1944 in Europa, dimostrò capacità militari e politico-diplomatiche, svolgendo un ruolo fondamentale di direzione e coordinamento degli eserciti alleati impegnati contro il Terzo Reich. Promosso il 20 dicembre 1944 a General of the Army, dopo la guerra intraprese la carriera politica e fu dal 1953 al 1961 il 34º presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America.



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✵ 14. Ottobre 1890 – 28. Marzo 1969   •   Altri nomi Дуайт Эйзенхауэр
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Dwight David Eisenhower frasi celebri

“L'agricoltura sembra molto semplice quando il tuo aratro è una matita e sei a un migliaio di miglia dal campo di grano.”

Origine: Citato in Dario Bressanini e Beatrice Mautino, Contro natura, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015, p. 158. ISBN 978 88 17 08092 7

Dwight David Eisenhower Frasi e Citazioni

“Le cose sono più simili a come sono ora che a come sono mai state in precedenza.”

Origine: Citato in John D. Barrow, I numeri dell'universo, Mondadori 2004.

“Un ateo è una persona che guarda la finale del campionato di football e non si preoccupa di sapere chi vincerà.”

Origine: Citato in Marco Pastonesi e Giorgio Terruzzi, Palla lunga e pedalare, Dalai Editore, 1992, p. 67. ISBN 88-8598-826-2

Dwight David Eisenhower: Frasi in inglese

“Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.”

Remark at a cabinet meeting, as quoted in Since 1945 : Politics and Diplomacy in Recent American History (1979) by Robert A. Divine, p. 55
1950s

“This is something, eh, that is the kind of thing that must be gone through with what I believe is best not talked about too much until we know whatever answers there will be.”

Response to questions about the investigation of Robert Oppenheimer's supposed Communist sympathies
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954), p. 435
Cited in [Brendon, Piers, Ike: His Life & Times, 1st edition, 1986, Harper & Row, New York, ISBN 0-06-015508-6, p. 270 of 478, The Dawn of Tranquility]
1950s

“The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.”

Speech at Williamsburg College http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (15 May 1953)
1950s

“The John Birch Society is a good, patriotic society. I don't agree with what its founder said about me, but that does not detract from the fact that its membership is comprised of many fine Americans dedicated to the preservation of our libertarian Republic.”

Reported in an editorial in the Alton Evening Telegraph (July 14,1964), A-4; appeared in a display ad in the Los Angeles Times (September 27, 1964), D14. Reported as misattributed in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 24, stating that an aide of Eisenhower's had denied that Eisenhower had made the remark.
Misattributed

“The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.”

Remarks to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (22 April 1954)
1950s

“The chief of staff says I'm the guy.”

Journal entry after being informed by George Marshall that he would be in command of Operation Overlord, as quoted in Eisenhower : A Soldier's Life (2003) by Carlo D'Este, p. 307
1940s

“The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.”

Remarks to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/speeches/address_convention_hall.pdf (31 January 1962)
1960s

“The government in Washington belongs to you.”

Remarks to the National Industrial Conference Board http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/speeches/address_convention_hall.pdf (20 May 1965)
1960s

“From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.”

State of the Union Address to Congress http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/avwebsite/PDF/54text.pdf (7 January 1954)
1950s

“The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America’s strength.”

Address at Norwich University http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf, Northfield, Vermont (9 June 1946)
1940s

“To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.”

Columbia University Inaugural Address http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (12 October 1948)
1940s

“The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen.”

Talk at the Commercial Club of Chicago http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (21 May 1948)
1940s

“The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone.”

A speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner (3 July 1951). It is currently on display on the wall of Eisenhower Hall at the USMA at West Point in New York. Eisenhower Memorial Commission http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/speeches/19510703%20English%20Speaking%20Union%20Dinner.htm
1950s

“You just can't have this kind of war. There aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.”

In 1957, as quoted in No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_klAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=%22there+aren%27t+enough+bulldozers+to+scrape+the+bodies+off+the+streets%22&source=bl&ots=g2f8x1zwaq&sig=JxpjSjWSWqsTKHpxnfAjjmW2ibU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMI6cCQsa6SxgIVAWitCh3TUwty#v=onepage&q=%22there%20aren't%20enough%20bulldozers%20to%20scrape%20the%20bodies%20off%20the%20streets%22&f=false, by Thomas M. Nichols.
1950s

“We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.”

Remarks to American Field Service Students http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/speeches/address_convention_hall.pdf (15 July 1958)
1950s

“It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.”

1950s, Remarks on the Observation of Law Day (1958)

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